Tests The Post Runs - Sun Microsystems SPARCstation 5 Service Manual

3. In a Shell Tool window on the Sun workstation, type tip hardwire. (Some
commands will not work properly in a Command Tool window.)
The system will reply connected.
hostname% tip hardwire
connected
The Shell Tool window is now a tip window directed to the Sun workstation
serial port.
4. When you are finished running POST and want to disconnect the tip window,
either type ~. (tilde period) in the tip window, or type kill -9 and the
process ID number of the tip hardwire process.
hostname% ~.
hostname% kill -9 PID# of tip hardwire process

Tests the POST Runs

Following is a sample listing of the Full Diagnostic Mode tests completed by POST.
CODE EXAMPLE 3–1
MMU Context Table Reg Test
MMU Context Register Test
MMU TLB Replace Ctrl Reg Tst
MMU Sync Fault Stat Reg Test
MMU Sync Fault Addr Reg Test
MMU TLB RAM NTA Pattern Test
MMU TLB CAM NTA Pattern Test
MMU TLB LCAM NTA Pattern Test
IOMMU SBUS Config Regs Test
IOMMU Control Reg Test
IOMMU Base Address Reg Test
IOMMU TLB Flush Entry Test
IOMMU TLB Flush All Test
SBus Read Time-out Test
EBus Read Time-out Test
D-Cache RAM NTA Test
D-Cache TAG NTA Test
I-Cache RAM NTA Test
I-Cache TAG NTA Test
Memory Address Pattern Test
FPU Register File Test
FPU Misaligned Reg Pair Test
FPU Single-precision Tests
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